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Not really, Sheryl's character had taken a lot of cues from Ayumi Hamasaki (including some of her promotional). The aura around her felt like that of a Japanese celebrity, not an American one.

- Tak

Well of course. Music in Macross usually mirrors the state of Japanese pop music in some way. Minmei was a distillation of every pop idol of the period, and Sheryl and Ranka reflect the two sides of J-Pop today. At least, that's how it's supposed to work based on SDFM.